Joyce Merritt - Wrestling With God
Rev. Joyce Merritt, Director of Still Waters Family Ministries based in Middle Tennessee, shares in this conversation on Cumberland Road how she has "wrestled" with God over control and time and expresses her hope in the Church as it tries new things to minister with others.
Rev. Joyce Merritt directs Still Waters Family Ministries, a Middle Tennessee outreach ministry headquartered in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This ministry serves families, with a focus on single parent families, who need a hand up to move forward to the full and secure life God wants for all God’s children. Prior to founding and directing Still Waters Family Ministries, Joyce pastored the Rockvale Cumberland Presbyterian Church for ten years. Previously, she served in associate pastoral capacities at Commerce Cumberland Presbyterian Church and at Cookeville Cumberland Presbyterian Church where she co-founded and co-pastored an outreach ministry to persons living in or near the Cookeville Housing Authority.
Joyce received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts Degree from Tennessee Technological University and taught in the public schools for ten years as a family literacy teacher and program director as well as a secondary science teacher. Following her teaching career, Joyce answered the call to ministry, earning her Master of Divinity degree from Memphis Theological Seminary in 2004. Her first call to ministry was to a Cookeville Outreach Ministry. She was ordained in December 2004 during the same service in which her fifth child received infant baptism.
Joyce received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts Degree from Tennessee Technological University and taught in the public schools for ten years as a family literacy teacher and program director as well as a secondary science teacher. Following her teaching career, Joyce answered the call to ministry, earning her Master of Divinity degree from Memphis Theological Seminary in 2004. Her first call to ministry was to a Cookeville Outreach Ministry. She was ordained in December 2004 during the same service in which her fifth child received infant baptism.
In addition to the Still Waters Ministries, Joyce also serves as Parish Associate for the Murfreesboro First Presbyterian Church where she has served for the past three years. She has also published a book of poems: Naked Before God, A Journey Into Light and Life. Joyce and Tim and three of their five children live on a family farm in Rockvale, Tennessee.
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